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7 Feb 2024
@dmills27:matrix.orgDominic Mills
In reply to @fricklerhandwerk:matrix.org
Dominic Mills: Hey, it would be great if you kicked off the process with a CFP, because we should definitely take the opportunity to get funding.

How far do you want to go with it? Are you willing and available to drive it to conclusion: progress tracking, evaluation, final report, the whole project management long tail? (bearbeitet)
yes, I'm willing at do all of what you just mentioned for the duration of the programme.
21:10:47
@dmills27:matrix.orgDominic Mills
In reply to @fricklerhandwerk:matrix.org
Dominic Mills: Hey, it would be great if you kicked off the process with a CFP, because we should definitely take the opportunity to get funding.

How far do you want to go with it? Are you willing and available to drive it to conclusion: progress tracking, evaluation, final report, the whole project management long tail? (bearbeitet)
* yes, I'm willing and available at do all of what you just mentioned for the duration of the programme.
21:20:51
8 Feb 2024
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9 Feb 2024
@dooy:matrix.org@dooy:matrix.orgIs there any work towards creating an LLM bot that integrates Nix documentation for user support and generating specific documentation10:35:24
@fricklerhandwerk:matrix.orgfricklerhandwerk
In reply to @dooy:matrix.org
Is there any work towards creating an LLM bot that integrates Nix documentation for user support and generating specific documentation

There were some internal experiments with commercial offers at Tweag in the past months, based on the source code, i.e. official documentation. Unsurprisingly the quality was not overwhelming, because many things are simply not written down.

Last year there was quite harsh opposition to mine Discourse and IRC/Matrix logs due to copyright/privacy concerns. We thought about implementing a self-hosted setup and offering it to the community for testing. But as those volunteer efforts go, not much has happened due to other priorities.

Ideally such an LLM would graze over Discourse, Matrix, GitHub, and the sources, and reply to questions with summaries with references. Would be great to have such a smart dumb search engine, because of those things that are written down somewhere, most are really hard to find manually.

10:49:44
11 Feb 2024
@fractivore:cyberia.clubSYMYƧ
In reply to @dooy:matrix.org
Is there any work towards creating an LLM bot that integrates Nix documentation for user support and generating specific documentation
In my experience LLMs are really awful at Nix right now and hallucinate a lot. I think significant advancement would probably need to happen for this to be helpful rather than confusing, as a bot pulling from existing LLMs is very likely to hallucinate and provide incorrect documentation. Probably, an LLM would need to be trained specifically for the task, and yeah I feel like the best one could even hope for right now is for the LLM to provide links to relevant discussions as described above, or be able to tell you "this is new territory" with some level of confidence.
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